This paper explores the relationship between external debt and poverty. A number of observers have argued that high … external indebtedness is a major cause of poverty. Using the first-differenced general method of moments (GMM) estimator, the … paper models the impact of external debt on poverty, measured by life expectancy, infant mortality, and gross primary …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

The paper reviews the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach and efforts to build institutional statistical capacity … to permit evidence-based monitoring of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Integrating the PRS approach and …

This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development …

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the … and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration decision, and costs of backmigration may produce an urban poverty …

for, poverty consistently appears as the main worldwide determinant of NGO aid allocation. NGOs do not respond to …

new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …